Press Play with Madeleine Brand
You Use More of Your Brain Than You Think
The movie “Lucy” comes out this weekend. It’s all about what can happen when Scarlett Johansson uses 100 percent of her brain’s capacity. Except the whole premise of the movie -- that old idea that we only use ten percent of our brain -- is actually a complete and total myth.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe movie “Lucy” comes out this weekend. It’s all about what can happen when Scarlett Johansson uses 100 percent of her brain’s capacity. Except the whole premise of the movie -- that old idea that we only use ten percent of our brain -- is actually a complete and total myth.
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2 of 5Lovely Lawns, Problematic Palms, and Smithsonian Orphans- 0:00Dueling Rulings on Obamacare
- 9:11You Use More of Your Brain Than You Think You’re reading this
- 16:02Smithsonian’s Orphans
- 27:55The American Lawn
- 38:42A Palm Tree Problem?